Saturday, August 25, 2007

EZ's Angel

I finished the Angel in Christmas Fiddle Faddle in the Wilds, from the Knitter’s Almanac. She’s made from a white mohair yarn that I came across in my stash without a label: it has little patches of pale pink, lemon and lavender in it. You can see some of the snowflakes I knitted from the same yarn, from EZ's star pattern.

EZ’s angels have a colour pattern around the hem, but I felt that with fluffy white yarn I didn’t need to have colourwork as well. I used the same number of stitches and didn’t really have any idea what size she would turn out to be, but she’s just under 6 inches high. She isn’t big enough to become a hat after Twelfth Night. Perhaps I should knit her big sister and I could wear her as a hat.

Her little arms are i-cord and worked perfectly. I made up the wings because I thought she ought to have some, and I only needed to add blue eyes to her face because the yarn obligingly placed a pink bit at her mouth (that wouldn’t have happened if I’d tried, I promise).

Her hair can be smoothed down but I like her best with it a bit wild – in some of the dimly lit photos she looked more like the Corpse Bride than a Christmas Tree Fairy.

Thanks for the nice comments. I found these items a bit of a chore the first time I tried them, diane h, but I think it's because I was using dull yarn. As soon as I stepped up to fluffy mohair and Kid Classic, I got hooked. And they were all left-overs from past projects or forgotten items from the stash, so they weren't extravagances - an economy really :)